ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE: Spent two seasons
playing for John Stratton at Arizona Western College …
pitched 69 innings with a 2.70 ERA in 2011.

HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Corey Nicholson at
North Eugene High School … Highlanders won Midwestern League
Championship in 2007 … lettered all four years in baseball,
two years in swimming and one year in football … earned
first-team All-State pitcher his final three seasons, Midwestern
League MVP in 2008 and played for the Washington Nationals in the
2008 area code games.

PERSONAL: Timothy Keller was born on March 21,
1991, in Eugene, Ore. … son of Lynn and Charlie Keller
… has an older brother, Jon … majoring in
communications.